[mythtv-users] Does MythTV need a Beginner's FAQ Collection?

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 25 June 2003 10:32 pm, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback, Isaac. Some comments below.
>
> At 08:23 PM 6/25/2003 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> [...]
>
> > > 6. How do I get and install MythTV?
> >
> >Really think a link to the appropriate section in the howto would be
> > better, here.
>
> And what section would that be?

Sections 3, 4, and 5 cover getting and installing mythtv on a variety of 
platforms.

> Information on CVS is in Section 1 (How to Obtain This Document). It's a
> good illustration of the improbable locations problem I just mentioned in a
> response to Robert. I only found it myself by accident, earlier today,
> because you link to it on the Website.

I would think that the proximity of the 'CVS access' section to the 'Mailing 
Lists' section on the website (you really can't see one without the other) 
would preclude any new user from asking questions about how to get to the CVS 
tree.

> Information on the tarball is, quite reasonably, at the start of Section 5
> (Downloading and Compiling). But all it says there is: "Get MythTV from the
> mythtv.org web site. Save the tarball to a directory you can find." I
> should waste a reader's time and energy with a link to that? I should and
> will, though, reference the HowTo's section 5.4, which lists the commands
> needed to unpack and build Myth, instead of the README file in the tarball.

So sections 3 and 4 are completely useless and people shouldn't be reading 
them?

> CVS is not mentioned anywhere in Section 5, BTW ... though I assume the
> "build" instructions of section 5.4 apply to it too.

If, as you say, this is a 'Beginner's FAQ', then why mention CVS at all?  No 
one should install CVS right off.

> Information on distro-specific packages is ...well, mostly nowhere, as far
> as I can see. Section 5.6 mentions the Debian-Woody packages, but the HowTo
> has no mention I can find of the other distros you link to on the Myth
> Website or of Debian-Sid.

Considering I added those links on the website a grand total of 3 days ago, 
why would they be in the docs yet?

> What is your question?  Idiosyncratic is a good word, one that means
> exactly what I wanted to say here, while adding that word-of-the-day
> feeling I like to toss somewhere in anythung lengthy I write. I could have
> said "not conforming to any industry or Linux standard", but that seemed
> too wordy and banal.

Try 'native', or 'custom'.

Isaac